Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices
2026-05-29T20:51:48Z•54016ab79ea4c6fb8c9f5cc51ae23c79d18262217e62e575d72659c3f64bb642
Adobe A/B testingAnthropic ClaudeCPS securityCVE-2026-35616Claroty ClaireDutch policeFROSTFortiClient EMSHumanixLinkedIn-themed phishingMicrosoft 365 CopilotNetskope NewEdgeOPFSSSD fingerprintingbehavioral analysisbotnetdata localizationfingerprintinginfostealerinsider threat detectionphishingprivacysecurity-researchtrojan detection
What happened
A batch of security news: Dutch authorities disrupted 200 servers controlling a botnet infecting an estimated 17 million devices. Attackers are actively exploiting a FortiClient EMS improper access control vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) to deliver a broad-spectrum infostealer via forged Fortinet endpoint updates and FortiClient-managed VPN scripting workflows. Researchers demonstrated FROST, an OPFS-based SSD timing technique that lets websites infer user activity from SSD behavior, creating a new privacy/fingerprinting vector. A LinkedIn-themed phishing campaign is abusing Adobe’s A/B testing
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- 2026-05-29T20:51:48Z
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